07/13/2011
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"If you have less than a few years' notice, right now we have no options."
"Like others who have traveled into space, I myself am no stranger to space threats."
"And we want to get into how you are going to nudge it away. And we will get into that."
"The threat from these near-Earth objects, as well as threats from space weather, debris, and more, deserves a closer look from this committee."